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Skua@kbin.social 6 months agoTo add to this, we apparently always knew. The famous blue image is more or less the correct hue, but the saturation has been absolutely blown out like a clickbait youtube thumbnail in order to show faint features more clearly. Somewhere along the line we stopped mentioning that that had been done. Irwin and co just just re-calculated it to get the most accurate version yet, because we've got a lot more data to work with now than we did back when Voyager 2 did its fly-by
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Sort of? My understanding from reading a handful of articles is that Neptune has a bluish haze later that’s absent on Uranus, but it’s fairly subtle and the overall color of both is pretty similar. So it’s not just that it got oversaturated but that that particular hue got applied to the whole planet and not just as a thin layer.